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Mercury News' Santa Clara and San Mateo counties high school sports blogWed, 25 Apr 2018 01:05:00 +0000hourly1By: Personhttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/2009/10/21/football-top-15-18/comment-page-1/#comment-11417
Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:05:43 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=1435#comment-11417I heard Paly beat Milpitas tonight. I wonder how that’ll shake up the rankings. Any chance of LG going Open???
]]>By: NorCalSportsFanhttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/2009/10/21/football-top-15-18/comment-page-1/#comment-11395
Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:52:55 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=1435#comment-11395Palma is more inconsistent than down. They should have won the first game they lost by 1pt going for 2 at the end, and a tie to Seaside. Inconsistency and penalties have killed Palma. They did dominate (yes dominate 34-14)Saint Francis. SF had no answer for Palma’s ground game and except for first seriers Palma defense which is very good shut SF down. Palma if they play their A game should be competitive and in the thick of it gainst any WCAL team. Palma lost one of their top 4 players for the season (a two way player), but seem to have enough balance and depth to recover.

San Benito is actually pretty good. They have a very good offensive line and execute the wish bone very well this year. Their QB runs a very deceptive offense and can throw the ball well. Their defense is very active and doesn’t make alot of mistakes. Palma v San Benito will be very hard faught. I wouldn’t count them out in the Open divivon either.

The team to me that looks downright nasty and dangerous is Milpitas. They have the type of defense and physical play that can be very tough to matchup with and this year they have balance on offense.

Overall, there is no clear cut elite team in the CCS this year. Any team that makes the open division has a shot. I will say this about Serra, St Francis and Los Gatos is that they are suspect up the middle on run defense. Although they all have quick strike capability on offense. If they don’t play well, they can be taken out. Bells are strong on defense, and Mitty may the team that has it all. Mitty makes no errors in the first half against Bells and they should have won decisively.

]]>By: What do you think?http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/2009/10/21/football-top-15-18/comment-page-1/#comment-11416
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:57:16 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=1435#comment-11416Valerie, being undefeated doesn’t mean you are the best team. It depends on quality of the teams you’ve played. Every year in every sport there are perfect examples of this. If you take last year as an example, Santa Teresa finished their regular season 10-0, no losses. People like you would say, wow they should be ranked towards the top of the polls. Others who understand what it means to evaluated the quality of the opponents said no. Sure enough in the first round of the playoffs, Santa Teresa was beat by Wilcox, who was not an elite team. The year before it was Del MAr, 10-0 then a big flop in the playoffs.

After tonight we will see if Mitty belongs on the top as they are playing an equally good team. The jury is till out on San Benito until they play tougher competition.

]]>By: Valerie Mhttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/2009/10/21/football-top-15-18/comment-page-1/#comment-11402
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:42:56 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=1435#comment-11402It is reaaly a sorry thing when you look at your rankings and you tells us that this is based on the performance on the field not by any one person’s opinion. You must not be a person/human.

Clearly the win/loss record of being undefeated belongs to Milptas, Mitty and San Benito…yest they are not thte top 3…what is up with that?

]]>By: Tom Joneshttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/2009/10/21/football-top-15-18/comment-page-1/#comment-11415
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:22:44 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=1435#comment-11415Milpitas, Serra, SB, and Bellarmine are all the best DI enrollment schools and they will be in the open.

The DI field would look a little stronger with those guys.

Another thing about having two schools forced up as in the scenario Doc posted. I Believe that VC will opt up and make the playoffs. With the expanded playoff field even at 5-5 and 6th place in the WCAL (likely scenario if they lose to SI) they will be in. Remember that if they opt up all they need to do is qualify for the 40 team tournament and they are in regardless of how many points they have in relation to the rest of the qualifying field. If 8 or fewer teams opt up and VC is one of them they play the big boys. If more than 8 teams opt up VC would have to have more points than at least one of those teams. If more than 8 opt up I don’t see VC getting in the open but I don’t think that will be the scenario.

If 7 teams opt up it looks like the last spot goes to.

SB at 10-0=33 points if A. Hill wins league= Lock
SB 10-0=32 if A-Hill does not win league= we’ll see

SB at 9-1 TCAL co champ=29.75 needs Leland to have another loss and Pioneer to have at least one loss.

Pioneer at 10-0 Lock if SB loses to Palma or A. Hill not league champ.

Leland at 9-1 need LG loss to Milpitas/A. Hill to lose to go.

This is all based on the assumption that teams will follow last years trend.

Milpitas: Opted up last year with one loss. They will likely be undefeated at the deadline so I have them opting up.

Palma: down this year but have opted up every year in the open div era.

VC: Has opted up every year despite missing the playoffs in 2006. I have them opting up.

Mitty: Only opted up in 2007 but this year they have a better record so I have them opting.

Bellarmine/Serra: Never not opted up.

SF: See VC, opted up every year despite missing the playoffs 3 straight.

There is 7 with one spot remaining. It seems people are either not understanding the rules or suspecting VC will lose to SHC or Riordan. I don’t see that happening. They will be in the open unless they really tank.

Last spot to SB, Pioneer, Leland, or LG depending on how the rest of the season goes.

]]>By: WestSideSantaClarahttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/2009/10/21/football-top-15-18/comment-page-1/#comment-11414
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:50:02 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=1435#comment-11414I think the D1 teams are to blame for SJ school district making their enrollments so large. How many kids go to Independence HS? I also think the D2 stackedness is a tribute to the great local football communities of the SCVAL(DAL and El Camino). Even with smaller schools they have better teams than most.
]]>By: Ol'Bell86http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/2009/10/21/football-top-15-18/comment-page-1/#comment-11413
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:41:38 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=1435#comment-11413Prima:

Understood. Good points.

Regarding Nostradamous’ posting as to what another site said about the playoff brackets it strikes me as shocking how down D1 is versus either Open or D2. Heck, even the D3 winner could probably beat the D1. I wonder (and throw out the question to all of you who know better than I) why does D1 not have any particularly strong teams? All due respect to Andrew Hill and Piedmont Hills — as well as ANY team that makes the playoffs — well done, great season and all — but Open has some strong teams and D2 is fairly stacked (although I think Los Gatos has to be the prohibitive favorite and I would like to see them in the Open), and even D3 has St. Ignatius and VC. D1 is lagging behind any of those. Thoughts?

]]>By: Just Wonderinghttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/2009/10/21/football-top-15-18/comment-page-1/#comment-11412
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:07:31 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=1435#comment-11412“Better than XMAS”? Of all people, you should know better than that, Nostradamous :/
]]>By: nostradamoushttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/2009/10/21/football-top-15-18/comment-page-1/#comment-11401
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:07:59 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=1435#comment-11401i know its early to be talkin playoffs (PLAYOFFS?!?!?!?!), but its great that its almost close enough to project that wonderful time of the year Better than XMAS! Can’t wait to see how it ends up.

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!

]]>By: Tom Joneshttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/2009/10/21/football-top-15-18/comment-page-1/#comment-11411
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:56:21 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=1435#comment-11411A little rushed but I think those #s are close. Looks like the best thing for TKA was having to forfeit to MP.
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